Patents Assigned to Sharp
  • Publication number: 20150173226
    Abstract: Condensation is prevented in a space between a protective panel, a touch panel, or the like and a display surface of a display unit, and penetration is effectively prevented of foreign matter into the space between the protective panel, the touch panel, or the like and the display surface of the display unit from outside. A display device is provided with a display unit, a protective panel, and a sealing member. The display unit has a display surface that causes data to be displayed. The protective portion is disposed so as to cover the display surface. The sealing member is provided between the display unit and the protective portion so as to surround the display surface in a plan view seen from above the display surface, and is provided so as to form a path connecting an inner region surrounded by the sealing member to a region outside the sealing member with a shape that is not linear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Murakami, Atsushi Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20150173047
    Abstract: A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message including secondary cell group (SCG) configuration parameters for SCG addition. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including SCG configuration parameters for SCG addition, the method also includes ordering, by an RRC of the UE, a medium access control (MAC) of the SCG of the UE to initiate a random access procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150171263
    Abstract: A nitride semiconductor light emitting element is provided with: a substrate; a buffer layer that is provided on the substrate; a base layer that is provided on the buffer layer; an n-side nitride semiconductor layer that is provided on the base layer; an MQW light emitting layer that is provided on the n-side nitride semiconductor layer; and a p-side nitride semiconductor layer that is provided on the MQW light emitting layer. An x-ray rocking curve half-value width ? (004) with respect to a (004) plane, i.e., the crystal plane of the nitride semiconductor, is 40 arcsec or less, or the x-ray rocking curve half-value width ? (102) with respect to a (102) plane is 130 arcsec or less, and the rate P (80)/P (25) between light output P (25) at 25° C. and light output P (80) at 80° C. with a same operating current is 95% or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Nakatsu, Tomoya Inoue, Kentaro Nonaka, Toshiaki Asai, Tadashi Takeoka, Yoshihiko Tani
  • Publication number: 20150168774
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device that includes: a liquid crystal panel that includes red pixels that selectively transmit red light, blue pixels (BPX) that selectively transmit blue light, and green pixels that transmit at least green light; a backlight device that includes magenta LEDs and green LEDs; a panel control unit that controls the liquid crystal panel in such a manner that one frame display period includes a red-and-blue display period in which the red pixels and the blue pixels are selectively driven so as to carry out display in red and blue, and a green display period in which the green pixels are selectively driven so as to carry out display in green; and a backlight control unit that controls the backlight device in such a manner that the backlight device turns on the magenta LEDs and turns off the green LEDs during the red-and-blue display period, and turns on the green LEDs and turns off the magenta LEDs during the green display period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Mitsuru Hosoki
  • Publication number: 20150173079
    Abstract: A transmission device, a communication system, a transmission method, and a transmission program that enhance transmission efficiency and communication quality in CA are provided. Signals of a plurality of bands are transmitted by using a first access scheme for a signal of a first band, which is at least one of the plurality of bands, and by using a second access scheme for a signal of a second band, which is at least another one of the plurality of bands. The first access scheme is a frequency spread scheme and the second access scheme is a frequency division multiplexing scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazunari Yokomakura, Hiroki Takahashi, Jungo Goto, Osamu Nakamura, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20150171372
    Abstract: A fluorescent material is configured with a phosphor containing material, and fine particles dispersed in the phosphor containing material. The fine particles have a refractive index lower than that of the phosphor, and external shapes of the fine particles may be various shapes such as a spherical shape, a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a cone shape, a trigonal pyramid shape, or an indefinite form. Further, the fine particles 12 of a plurality of different shapes may be mixed and dispersed in the phosphor containing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akiko Iwata, Mitsuhiro Koden, Yoshimasa Fujita
  • Publication number: 20150172029
    Abstract: A terminal device that receives first information indicating a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI), a plurality of second information signaled on a physical downlink control channels (PDCCH) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code scrambled by the RNTI and a plurality of third information where each of the plurality of the third information being used for determining an index to a second information for a component carrier (CC).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoichi SUZUKI, Shohei YAMADA, Katsunari UEMURA, Daiichiro NAKASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20150171239
    Abstract: A method for producing a solar cell and the solar cell, a silver content in a silver paste used to form a main grid electrode on a surface of a substrate being lower than a silver content in a silver paste used to form a sub grid electrode on the surface of the substrate, are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Yoshihiro Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20150173120
    Abstract: A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving an RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, a medium access control (MAC) entity of a secondary cell group (SCG) is released if any MAC entity of the SCG is established. In response to receiving the RRC connection reconfiguration message including mobility control information, a MAC entity of a master cell group (MCG) is reset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Shohei Yamada
  • Publication number: 20150168631
    Abstract: An illumination device (10) is provided with the following: light sources (11); a light-guide member (12 (13)) that includes a light entry region (Is) and a light exit region (Os) which emits planar light; light entry portions (13a) that are formed in the light entry region (Is) and that oppose the light sources (11); and bright line suppression portions (20) that are formed in the areas between the light entry portions (13a) at the front side of the light entry region (Is), and that include bright line suppression prisms (21) which have a shape that changes the angle of the light emitted in a direction spreading out from the light sources (11) to a direction closer to the optical axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Umekawa, Hirofumi Oosawa, Takeshi Ishida, Ryuzo Yuki, Masaki Kageyama, Shugo Yagi
  • Publication number: 20150173247
    Abstract: This portable terminal has disposed therein: a circuit board (14), which is disposed in a cabinet (15), and which has an electronic component (14a) mounted thereon; a display panel (11) disposed on the open plane of the cabinet (15); and a rechargeable battery (12) disposed between the display panel (11) and the circuit board (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Ueno, Yasumasa Miyauchi
  • Publication number: 20150171983
    Abstract: A replica signal of a data signal addressed to another reception station is efficiently generated, and an interference cancellation process or an interference suppression process can be performed by using the replica signal. A replica generation unit 232 returns an interference data signal input from a decoding unit 209 to a symbol sequence which is generated by a transmission station before a frequency demapping process. The generated replica symbol sequence is output to an interference cancellation unit 231. The interference cancellation unit 231 subtracts a replica frequency domain signal input from the replica generation unit 232 from a frequency domain signal input from an FFT unit 204 to remove a signal of an undesired reception station. The symbol sequence as the subtraction result is output to a signal demultiplexing unit 206.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Naoki Kusashima
  • Patent number: 9059749
    Abstract: A wireless communication device may autonomously transition from a multiple antenna port mode to a single antenna port mode. The wireless communication device may implicitly notify a base station about the autonomous transition from the multiple antenna port mode to the single antenna port mode. The base station may reallocate resources that were previously allocated to the wireless communication device but that are no longer being used by the wireless communication device. In some cases, the base station may configure the wireless communication device's antenna port mode via radio resource control signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kimihiko Imamura, John M. Kowalski, Sayantan Choudhury
  • Patent number: 9059294
    Abstract: A switching circuit (semiconductor device) (18) includes two switching units (SW1 and SW2), which are connected in series to each other, and two capacitances (CS1 and CS2), where one electrode of one of the capacitances is connected to the connecting section of the switching units (SW1 and SW2) and one electrode of the other capacitance is connected to one end of the switching units (SW1 and SW2). To the other electrodes of the capacitances (CS1 and CS2), signals having a constant voltage or signals having a same phase are supplied. A bottom gate electrode (light-shielding film) (22) is formed for the switching unit (SW2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hidehito Kitakado
  • Patent number: 9058788
    Abstract: A method of processing image data for display by a display panel of a display device is provided. The method comprises receiving main image pixel data representing a main and side image pixel data representing a side image. In a first processing step, a mapping is performed of the pixel data to signals used to drive the display panel. The mapping is arranged to produce an average on-axis luminance which is dependent mainly on the main image pixel data and an average off-axis luminance which is dependent at least to some extent on the side image pixel data. In a second processing step, the received side image pixel data are processed to emphasize at least one feature of the side image which might otherwise be perceived by a viewer as being de-emphasized in the side image displayed off axis as a result of the first processing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Andrew Kay, Allan Evans, Benjamin John Broughton, Kenji Maeda
  • Patent number: 9059827
    Abstract: To reduce the process of a cell search including sector identification without increasing loads on a transmission/reception apparatus. A synchronization channel (SCH) included on downlink in a multicarrier mobile communication system is multiplied by a sector specific code and a cell specific code (step S1), assigned to subcarriers on the frequency axis (step S2), subjected to spreading processing and IFFT processing (steps S3, S4), and further subjected to insertion of GI and D/A conversion processing (steps S5, S6), and multicarrier is transmitted from a directional antenna of each sector (step S7). The receiving side specifies a SCH position by auto-correlation method or cross-correlation method, performs FFT, and then, concurrently performs identification of a sector by detection of the sector specific code, and acquisition of cell specific information by demodulation of the cell specific code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shoichi Shitara
  • Patent number: 9060173
    Abstract: A method for decoding a video frame includes receiving a slice in a video decoder, identifying the slice as one of at least a first predicted slice and a second predicted slice, receiving information used to determine a context initialization method corresponding to the slice, and initializing, based on the received information, one of a first context initialization method and a second context initialization method associated with the slice, and decoding the video frame using the slice and one of the first context initialization method and the second context initialization method. The first context initialization method is a method for initializing a context associated with the first predicted slice and the second context initialization method is a method for initializing a context associated with the second predicted slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiran Misra, Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 9058783
    Abstract: This liquid crystal display device (100) includes a pixel defined by a plurality of subpixels that includes red, green, blue and yellow subpixels (R, G, B, Ye). As long as the sum of respective luminances of all of the subpixels but the blue subpixel (B) falls within the range of 0% to 50% while the color displayed by the pixel is changing from the color blue in which the blue subpixel (B) is at the highest grayscale level and the other subpixels are at the lowest grayscale level into the color white in which all of those subpixels are at the highest grayscale level substantially without changing its hue, the yellow subpixel (Ye) starts to increase its grayscale level at a different timing, and/or has its grayscale level increased at a different ratio with respect to an increase in the pixel's luminance, from the red and green subpixels (R, G) do.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazunari Tomizawa, Yuichi Yoshida, Tomohiko Mori, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9056492
    Abstract: A printing apparatus is an apparatus capable of performing double-sided printing on a sheet, and is provided with a receiving portion and a control portion. The receiving portion receives an instruction for changing a sheet having one side printed that is set to a paper feed tray into a sheet having both sides printed with same printing content. The control portion performs control, when the instruction is received, to feed the sheet having one side printed from the paper feed tray, and when the fed sheet is an odd-numbered page and is a final page, to discharge the sheet without newly performing printing, and when the fed sheet is an odd-numbered page and is not a final page, to print information printed on a next even-numbered page on a back side of the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Takao Yamanouchi
  • Patent number: 9057703
    Abstract: A particle detection device detects a biological particle. The particle detection device includes a collection unit that collects a particle to a collection substrate, a fluorescence detection unit that emits excitation light toward the particle collected on the collection substrate and receives fluorescence emitted from the particle, and a cleaning unit that removes the particle from the collection substrate at a refreshing position separated from a collection/heating position and a detection position. At the collection/heating position, the particle is collected onto the collection substrate by the collection unit. At the detection position, fluorescence is received by the fluorescence detection unit. With such a structure, the particle detection device in which the particle is highly accurately detected is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihiro Suzuki, Hideaki Fujita, Seiichi Nagatome, Kazushi Fujioka, Hiroki Okuno